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Mayhew
1961
Journal
5,
Feb. 4 Dale Dry Lake area, San Bernardino Co., Calif.
beetle, and a small black beetle. Later a
small weevil was captured near the car. The
crickets are in B43, the Elegids in B25, 33. The
weevil is in B50. We looked for lizards from
1140 to 1305, then from 1355 to 1445. At the
time we started looking, air temp.(30") was 18°C.;
at 1cm, 20.6°C. There were no clouds, but a wind
13-16mph. was blowing from the N.W. We caught
5 juvenile Una scoparia (all we saw). We saw
no adults & no tracks of any. However, the
wind blew all night long, so any earlier tracks
would have been eliminated. We hiked to the
hills south of Dale & found a nice stream bed
(dry) & what appears to be good Saromelina area.
Then we drove on to Deep Canyon Desert
Research Area to camp for the night. We
arrived at 1945 after driving 91 miles today.
Minimum temp. tonight was 50°F. Max. temp. today - 22.0°C.
Feb. 5 Palm Springs area, Riverside Co., Calif.
We arose at 0800 and ate breakfast. Then
we drove to Rio del Sol Road, which we covered
slowly, looking for reptiles. None were seen on
that road nor on Ramon Road into Palm
Springs. We drove to Vista Chino to our
usual collecting site, but there are getting
to be a great many houses around it.
Vista Chino has been extended eastward
about 2 miles since our last trip here
in October (1960). We drove out that until
we reached the new subdivision that